Line Load
July 17 - August 16, 2025

Opening reception: July 19, 5 - 7 pm

Kerri Ammirata
Trudy Benson
Lauren Anaïs Hussey
Meg Lipke
Paola Oxoa

Mother Gallery is pleased to present Line Load, a group exhibition featuring new paintings by Kerri Ammirata, Trudy Benson, Lauren Anaïs Hussey, Meg Lipke, and Paola Oxoa. Line Load runs from July 17 through August 16, 2025. Mother is located at 1154 North Avenue in Beacon, NY.

Line Load brings together five artists whose practices engage abstraction through systems of tension, calibration, and relay. Each work bears a visual and conceptual weight—structured, distributed, held. But within these frameworks, the artists find space for improvisation, letting surface and structure remain responsive.

Abstraction here is not treated as a fixed language, but as a space of negotiation. Visual systems are initiated, interrupted, and recomposed. The works invite attention through rhythm, variation, and internal logic, privileging sustained looking over resolution. Across the exhibition, line becomes a vehicle for control and release: measured, repeated, fractured, or absorbed into material. It holds structure, but also carries feeling—at times diagrammatic, other times intimate.

Kerri Ammirata builds tension into surface and structure. Her paintings unfold through shifting cues and layered registers, sustaining ambiguity as a compositional logic. Trudy Benson constructs layered compositions where analog mark-making meets digital space. Her paintings fold gesture into interface, generating visual feedback through structured overload. Lauren Anaïs Hussey compresses space into restrained visual fields. Her compositions maintain a quiet, persistent tension that rewards close observation and resists immediate interpretation. Meg Lipke extends painting into dimensional form. Her sewn and dyed textile constructions blur the distinction between object and image, mapping a tactile syntax rooted in memory and distortion. Paola Oxoa composes with structural repetition and spatial intervals. Her work evokes an embodied logic—at once sensory and computational—where visual charge is modulated through calibration.

Each artist articulates a distinct visual logic—attuned, deliberate, and materially aware. Together, the works in Line Load underscore abstraction as a generative structure—where weight is held and agency remains in motion.